2014 Elections

[Bungalow Bill]

I don't think he used any tricks, he just had a birth year that made it
unlikely he would be drafted. I wouldn't blame anyone for not
volunteering to go into the armed forces. If he does run I hope he
has learned some lessons from his brother's disastrous let's start
a war policy, but I wouldn't count on it.

[Sometime Lefty]

I was born in 53. '73 was the last year of the draft, by then you were only eligible to be drafted the year you were 20 and there were no education deferments at that point either (if your number was called you could delay entry to finish the semester but no more of that if you stayed in school you could pull a Cheney). A lottery was held each year. In 72 they drafted up to about number 65. They were expecting the same for 73. I drew a 4, all of my friends (around 10 of us, the drawing was in the morning and we were all drunk, but it was deadly serious) drew at minimum a 60 so it looked like I was probably the only one going. I then learned that if you moved to a different draft board area you had (memory hazy) like 4 weeks to notify your new draft board, then your paper work would be transferred and because the gov. was slow it would take 2 months for them to catch up with you and when they did I would move. After about 4 moves Nixon came on the tube one night and said as of midnight he was ending the draft. YA! I would bet Bush had a high draft number.

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Remember last year when a white Republican candidate in a predominantly black neighborhood pretended to be black to win an election?

Now a Republican candidate for Congress in Arizona, who is white, has changed his name to Cesar Chavez to appeal to Latino voters.

It backfired when Arizona’s governor deported him.

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I'm not sure if this is a welcome change from Republicans pretending to be non-Hispanic. Rafael "Ted" Cruz for example.

After all the Republican politicians who have demanded exceptional proof that Obama was born in America, it's time to start demanding exceptional evidence from black and Hispanic Republican candidates that they're really black or Hispanic. Or in Rafael's case, born in America.

[GoCubsGo]

David Brat campaign manager scrubs Facebook page after election

That is too freaking funny!

[Boatrocker]

David Brat campaign manager scrubs Facebook page after election

Just typical, day-to-day looneytoonery in Teabagistan.

[rstrong]

David Brat campaign manager scrubs Facebook page after election

Mitt Romney's Etch A Sketch is needed when the lame-stream media plays the dishonest and dirty trick of quoting Republicans verbatim.

[Bungalow Bill]

And just when the KKK "memorabilia" was really starting to move.

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"Oh no! Congress's current golden age of cooperation and productiveness is over."
- Jon Stewart on pundit predictions that the defeat of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor will make it impossible for Republicans to cooperate with Democrats

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CBC: Mississippi Tea Party enraged by blacks voting Republican

[Mr.B]

Why I shun politics. Looney-tunes running for office.

Now post links about looney Democrats....this is funny.

[O Really]

Ah, you beat me to posting that. But I was going to put it in the "Just for Fun" or "Good News" thread.

[O Really]

Yeah, I know - it's tacky to make light of somebody's personal tragedy. If it had been somebody like Corcoran who has many years of valuable service to his state - even as a conservative Republican, I could have at least maintained a respectful silence. But some teapartier who'd be involved in the sleazy pic scheme, and who knows whatever else he did that we don't know about, deserves nothing but derision, just like those nuts that shoot others and then themselves.

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...and who knows whatever else he did that we don't know about...

It's weird, illegal exploitation of a vulnerable elder is pretty bad, but an obnoxious pic is hardly suicide material.

Apparently it was a close election.

Maybe someone told him he cost Chris McDaniel the election. Leading to Obama taking away everyone's guns and turning the country into a communist corporate-controlled Islamic atheist state.

[O Really]

Maybe he realized he was living in a world where black people's vote counted.
Fair chance he would have gotten his law license suspended even in Mississippi. Of course now with one fewer lawyer, Mr.B should be happier.

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Oh, he was a lawyer.

Vrede,

Lawyers are just like any other people. There are good people and bad people. The people who come out the strongest against lawyers are the big corporations' PR departments. They want the 'common folk' to think ill of lawyers, because the law -- as imperfect as it is -- is the only equalizer left. And it's being eroded rapidly. And people dissing lawyers all the time helps that process.

[...]

Just kidding! My lawyer once freaked out after he stepped in cow manure and thought he was melting.

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...Thad Cochran was one of five Democrats...

:?:

Opps; sorry. I misread another article.

[billy.pilgrim]

do ya reckon teabagger mcdaniel knew about the hit before the news broke - as he did about the abuse of thad's wife

[Boatrocker]

Oh, he was a lawyer.

Vrede,

Lawyers are just like any other people . . . .

In my experience, lawyers are like bikers, truckers and public school administrators; 90% of them give the rest a bad name.

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Cesar Chavez removed from Arizona ballot

An Arizona congressional candidate who legally changed his name to Cesar Chavez will be removed from the Democratic primary ballot because of invalid nomination signatures, a judge ruled Tuesday.

Judge John Rea ruled that almost half of the nearly 1,500 signatures gathered by the candidate formerly known as Scott Fistler to get on the Aug. 26 ballot were invalid...

He previously lost two previous bids for elected office as a Republican...

Alejandro Chavez, the grandson of the former activist, filed a legal complaint alleging the candidate got signatures from people who aren't qualified to vote in the 7th District, changed his name to mislead voters and failed to register as a Democrat before collecting signatures.

"This is an attempt to fool voters," said Alejandro Chavez, adding that the name change is "a slap in the face to everybody who joined a march or a picket line" with his grandfather, who died in San Luis, Arizona, in 1993 at age 66.

The Maricopa County Elections Office determined the petition signers weren't eligible to vote in the primary because they weren't registered to vote, didn't live in the district, or weren't Democrats or independents.

So, a Republican pretending to be a Hispanic Democrat commits election fraud. Surprise, surprise.

It gets better.

"Chavez's" campaign website featured photographs of frenzied supporters holding "Chavez" signs, but which are obviously scenes from the streets of Venezuela at rallies for its late president Hugo Chavez.